Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) The director-general has the following functions:
(a) providing, or assisting in providing, services directed to strengthening and supporting families in relation to the wellbeing, care and protection of their children and young people;
(b) supporting the community in preventing, or reducing, abuse and neglect of children and young people;
(c) providing, or assisting in providing, information to parents, kinship carers and foster carers, prospective kinship carers and foster carers, government agencies, non-government agencies and members of the community about the operation of this Act;
(d) providing, or assisting in providing, information to people who are required to report suspected abuse of children and young people to help them perform their legal obligation;
(e) providing, or assisting in providing, information to people who report suspected abuse or neglect of children and young people and encouraging those people to continue their involvement in matters arising from their report;
(f) exercising aspects of parental responsibility for children and young people;
(g) providing, or assisting in providing, information, services or assistance to children and young people who have left the director-general's care;
(h) providing, or assisting in providing, services for young offenders, including by ensuring the provision of the care, support, rehabilitation and guidance necessary for them to become rehabilitated and reintegrated community members;
(i) working with other government agencies and community organisations, to coordinate and promote the care and protection of children and young people, including young offenders.
(2) The director-general has all the functions of an authorised person.
Note A provision of a law that gives an entity (including a person) a function also gives the entity powers necessary and convenient to exercise the function (see Legislation Act, s 196 and dict, pt 1, def entity ).